A Sharon teen is dead after being hit by gunfire from a botched drug deal early Friday in Sharon near the Farrell line.

Police were called at 1:47 a.m. for a report of eight gunshots fired in the 800 block of Wallis Avenue.

“We’re dealing with a pretty complex case here,” Sharon police Chief Mike Menster said Friday night. “Since about 2:30 a.m. we’ve been just in solid interviews and serving search warrants. We’ve detained and questioned dozens of people today.”

John B. Hosey, 18, of 422 Meek Street, was found lying on the east side of the street just south of 833 Wallis with a gunshot would to his torso, police said. Hosey was unconscious, not breathing and there was a lot of blood coming from his back, court documents said.

Hosey was taken to Sharon Regional and later pronounced dead by the Mercer County Coroner, police said.

A married couple were trying to buy drugs from someone at 833 Wallis when men surrounded their van and one fired a shotgun at them, court documents said.

Police were alerted by Mercer County 911 that there was a second gunshot victim at the hospital at Sharon Regional Health System, police said.

Ashley McNulty, 20, and Mark McNulty Jr., 21, both of West Middlesex, suffered “superficial” gunshot wounds, police said. Court documents said Mark McNulty was shot in the left ribcage area and Menster said Mrs. McNulty’s wound was on the left side of her head.

Menster said there were “multiple firearms” involved in the shootout. Police have recovered some. but not all, of them.

Hosey was involved in the confrontation that preceded the shooting, Menster said. The teen was in the street when the shots were fired and was never in the van, he said.

As of Friday evening, no one had been charged with killing Hosey but four people face charges related to the incident.

Alexander Lee, 28, of 26 Shenango Boulevard, Farrell, was arraigned Friday morning on drug conspiracy charges. According to court documents, Lee conspired with Chris Swogger and the McNultys to buy a pound of marijuana.

He was taken to Mercer County Jail after failing to post $30,000 bond, court documents said.

Swogger, 22, of Sharon, and John Dunder, 21, of Sharpsville, were also charged with drug conspiracy, police said.

Menster said police also picked up several people on parole detainers, including McNulty. He said there is a “pretty significant number of people” involved and it’s a matter of police rounding them all up, questioning them and gathering evidence.